While we’re on the topic of the Mets, check out the play that first baseman Daniel Murphy made last night on a groundball that hit the bag. Behind the back toss to get the runner at first. Well, kinda. Mark Loretta should’ve been called safe. But that’s a minor detail.
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January 7, 2010 - 8:06 am
I can’t say I’m surprised, considering it’s the BWAA, but still, when it came down to it, I was actually pretty sure that Roberto Alomar was going to get into the Hall on his first ballot, if only because he obviously deserves to be in and because the ballot was so thin this year, at [...]
January 5, 2010 - 10:35 am
Recently, as I was writing my post on why Barry Larkin deserves to be a first-ballot hall-of-famer, I got to wondering who the top 10 shortstops of all time are. In order to get an answer, I decided to crowdsource my question to the internet!
What I did was I went to Google and looked up [...]
January 4, 2010 - 1:25 pm
This year UmpBump continues its annual tradition of honoring the greats by casting our vote for who we think deserves to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. As always, we vote not just on players currently eligible for Hall of Fame voting under baseball’s arcane eligibility rules, but for any and all [...]
- 2:35 am
To my mind Barry Larkin is a stone cold lock for the Hall of Fame, even though there are probably enough people with short memories or who are just not paying attention among the BWAA to insure that he doesn’t get in this year.
Larkin had the complete package. An outstanding hitter with an .815 career [...]
July 9th, 2009 at 10:55 am
How was that not ESPN’s highlight of the night last night? They went with Ortiz’s homer instead. Poor choice. I guess Papi sells.
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July 9th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Coley, it’s clearly because of ESPN’s clear pattern of disrespect and hatred towards the city of New York.
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July 9th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Aha! But that can’t be the case, because on the same night ESPN.com ran the headline, “Ex-Mets star Dykstra files for bankruptcy in L.A.” Ex-Mets star Dykstra? Did he play the majority of his career in NY? No. Did he have his best years in NY? No. What a crock! He’s Philadelphia’s embarrassing former star, damn it! You can’t take him away from us!
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July 9th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
It was clearly the “Sophie’s Choice,” of the ESPN highlight of the night. Do they feature the Mets clip even though the team currently sucks or do they show the Boston clip of everybody’s favorite Big Papi? Quite the conundrum. In the end a resurgent Big Papi trumps Murphy. Paul, you don’t realize that ESPN doesn’t just like to feature NY teams they also like as much Sawks coverage as possible. I’m actually surprised they didn’t split screen it and show both clips at the same time.
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July 10th, 2009 at 9:29 am
For the record, I was kidding about ESPN’s bias. There’s more than enough (and then some) coverage of NYC sports.
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